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Founded National Organization for Women

Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique founded National Organization for Women (NOW).

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Over a Dozen Classes held regularly at YWCA

1966 a sample of classes include: sewing courses (pattern design and wardrobe planning); art, conversational French, rug hooking, drama courses, basketball, badminton, fencing and tumbling, and figure toning.  Guitar classes , drama, Hula, cooking,

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Serving nearly 4,000 women and girls

1966 the organization is serving nearly 4,000 women and girls.

  • Generations of women attend classes at the YWCA, and they often come together – Great Aunt Tillie at her water colors, her niece engaged in the “ABC of Investments” while her great niece studies casserole cookery and her great, great niece zips up and down the slides in the children’s nursery.
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